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Los Angeles has mountains/water on all sides so it can't grow in size. It also utilizes the space extremely inefficiently. Single level single family houses everywhere and the rest…

precision loss in floating point is often exponential. If 64 bit isn't enough, then very quickly 128 is also not enough. If precision is important then you will very often want sys…

When looking through all the other commits the user has made: they all lack a good commit message. This is systematic for that user. Either the user needs to improve or let go. The…

One of the most interesting innovations in the Ukraine war is their internal market place for drones, letting each drone group decide which drones they want to procure and use in b…

Supermarkets often have so low margin that building for the 98% of customers means that all of the profit has disappeared. Profit is often at the margin.

The KISS version of regulation would be that stores are not allowed to use the word "buy" when you don't get full ownership and must use the word "license" instead. Also it should …

Denmark does not have a problem with age. It has gone the other way: members are younger today than in the old days. Graph: https://www.ft.dk/-/media/sites/ft/billeder/infografikke…

Perl has the negated if statement: return unless fooOK; return unless barOK; return unless bazOK; # do something

> trains about the same amount The nice thing about trains is that they can run on electricity. It does require investing in overhead wires.

Problem is that PostgreSQL does not support LIMIT on the DELETE command. I have no idea why, it seems such an obvious feature for supporting large databases.

It is like writing novels: it is not the spelling or typing on the keyboard that is the bottleneck. It is always the creative world building part. The main criticism of the Harry P…

This is a very nice and fresh page layout.

Good trick is to prefix all such keys with magic, i.e. a couple of letters that identify type type of key. Then it will always be a string and you will be free to change the format…

I'd really like a collection of unit tests for parsers. There is a lot of details that can differ between parsers. E.g. in "Section C" the resulting KeyThree is "value 3▵▵▵▵▵▵▵valu…

XML would have the advantage of having a grammar so we could validate the config files. It would also make it much simpler to make good GUI editors for the files instead of the Not…

In Danish: https://danskebank.com/da/news-og-insights/nyhedsarkiv/press... or translated: https://danskebank-com.translate.goog/da/news-og-insights/ny... TLDR: power supply failed …

A Danish bank found out that this can bite you in the ass. When you hotpatch the system for years then you have no idea if the system can boot up or it will fail somewhere in the b…

iOS 26 is very late to have acceptable performance in the framework that Apple promotes as what you should use. It should have had good performance from the day it was introduced. …

Notes in the toilet were mostly for passing to other students. In many exams we were allowed to bring our own notes. Those are unusable if you haven't learnt the material, as you t…

> plastic everywhere. plastic will still be everywhere. The major catastrophe that could happen is for evolution of plastic eating bacteria like the creation of (dead) wood eating …

It's a very different world from the exams I had in Denmark, both uni and high school: * all exams were proctored * the proctoring were done by external people hired to do this. * …

A lot of boomers thinks windmills are against the natural order and will end the world. Also solar parks are just the most ugly thing in the world. They must be banned.

> not actually needed What you need is more that enough bandwidth . Think of the difference between a highway with few cars versus a highway filled to the brim with cars. In the la…

Some css files abuse !important so you might have to add that too: {elem.style.color = '#000 !important'}

and: a smart person can write a movie script with a stupid character but stupid script writers fail badly when writing smart characters.